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Reflecting on your own "hero's journey" narrative boosts your resilience and sense of meaning in life.

Locating this narrative is a smart long-term pacing strategy because it reminds you where you're headed.

Regularly revisiting your narrative can restore focus and reveal new insights.

From epic poets onward, storytellers have understood their art’s clarifying function as boiling events down to their essence and underscoring what’s most vital. Narratives “connect certain elements. They go, ‘That thing I did five years ago led me to who I am today,’” says Boston College management professor Benjamin Rogers. “That’s the power of the way we tell our stories."

Tracing our own personal narratives, Rogers has found, not only adds meaning to our lives — it helps us align our day-to-day choices with clear guiding principles when life gets tough.

Rogers has spent years studying the role life narratives play in helping people understand not just what matters to them, but how their guiding focus came to be.........

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